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TPCC president Revanth Reddy interacts with Singareni employees during the Haath se Haath jodo padayatra at Yellandu Assembly constituency. (Photo By Arrangement)

Congress to fight over podu lands

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HYDERABAD: Asserting that the Congress would continue to keep its fight on getting podu land for tribals, PCC chief A. ...

Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao greets Speaker Pocharam Srinivas Reddy on his birthday at his chambers in Assembly. (Photo by arrangement)

KCR promises pattas for podu lands, Girijan Bandhu for STs

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Hyderabad: Putting an end to the long-pending podu lands issue, Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao on Friday announced in the ...

Revenue officials conducted gram sabhas and resolved the applications on podu lands.  (DC Photo)

Gram sabhas clear podu land applications in officials’ absence

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KHAMMAM: Neither forest nor revenue officials are moving back from their stand on the podu land issue in Khammam and ...

Several officers asked the government to clarify its current policy on forest land encroachment  — DC Image

No politics over ‘podu’ lands, warn forest officials

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HYDERABAD: Officials of the Telangana state forest department on Wednesday put all political parties on notice declaring that it will ...

Chalamala Srinivas Rao, the forest officer, who was hacked to death by tribals. (Image: Twitter)

Tribals hack forest officer to death over podu land issue

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KOTHAGUDEM: The ongoing conflict over podu lands took a violent turn on Tuesday, with tribals of the Gothikoya community hacking ...

It all started after a team of forest and revenue officials inspected the podu land and asked the villagers Chamanapalli to set up boundaries to the podu lands. — DC File Image

Amid podu land survey, clash of villagers for right on land

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ADILABAD: Amid the ongoing podu lands survey, podu land cultivators and those who have stopped cultivation of such lands a ...

Police and forest staff were deployed on the to remove the tribals' huts and take the cultivators into their custody at Koya Poshaguda in Dandepally mandal of Mancherial district. (Screengrab from video)

Brutalities on podu farmers could raise an army of rebels

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ADILABAD: While hundreds of podu farmers who are being forcefully evicted from their lands are undergoing harrowing times, their offspring ...

Telangana state BJP president Bandi Sanjay Kumar. (DC Image)

Give podu land pattas: Bandi

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HYDERABAD: BJP state president Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Friday asked the state government to distribute pattas for Podu lands during ...

Pressure is mounting on TRS government to start issuing pattas for podu lands, since elections are fast approaching. (DC file photo)

Podu lands may turn battlefields during 8th Haritha Haram

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ADILABAD: Forest department is planning to raise plantations on forest and government lands as part of the 8th Haritha Haram ...